Managed Services Summit Why should you attend?

Now in its 8th year, the Managed Services Summit Manchester continues to complement its sister events in London, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, serving as a premier event for the UK, Nordics, and European IT channels. The Northern UK market offers unique opportunities and challenges, emphasizing cost-efficiency, practical innovation, and long-term partnerships, making it particularly relevant for MSPs and IT providers.

The Managed Services Summit is series of executive-level events, so you know you’ll be among the best in the sector, and those featured will explore the latest trends and developments, evolving customer requirements and how to create value through managed services – both for your own organisation and your customers

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Industry Insights

Presentations will cover the latest trends, evolving customer requirements, and strategies for creating value through managed services.

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Breakouts

Attend a range of sessions led by leading specialists in the field, focusing on technical, sales, and business-related topics.

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Networking

Connect with professionals in the IT channel, including senior decision makers and industry leaders.

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Interactions

Engage in discussions, debates, and collaborations with event sponsors and peers across the industry.

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MSS Benelux

30th June 2026, Amsterdam

MSS London

9th September 2026, London

MSS Nordics

5th November 2026, Stockholm

Meet our 2026 Event Speakers

Jon-Marc Wilkinson

Watchguard

Jon-Marc has been working within the IT Channel for 23-years and most recently joined WatchGuard in 2010 to raise awareness of the risks posed by cyber criminals. Recently there has been an increasing requirement to guide partners through a process of transformation, from value added reseller to Managed Security Provider. Enabling the UK channel to adopt a managed approached to security, has resulted in a tremendous growth within our partner community, whilst improving our customers security posture; protecting them against the increasing levels advanced threats.

Hugo Smales

Hornetsecurity

Hugo Smales

Hornetsecurity

Hugo Smales is a Pre-Sales Consultant at Hornetsecurity, specialising in cloud security, email threat protection, and Microsoft 365 governance. With a strong background in email security, phishing simulation, and data resilience, Hugo works closely with MSPs, IT leaders, and security teams to design robust defenses against modern cyber threats and streamline tenant compliance.

Name to be advised

Kaseya

Awaiting biography.

Juliana Najavas

Arrow

Juliana Navajas is a Microsoft Solutions Specialist specialising in Cyber Security, bringing over six years of experience across IT and Microsoft technologies.

Juliana works closely with partners to develop Microsoft Security opportunities, from identifying customer needs and potential upsell areas to supporting enablement and solution positioning. Drawing on her previous experience in solution consulting, she bridges technical understanding with commercial conversations to help partners grow their cybersecurity business.


Will Garside

IT Europa

Will Garside

IT Europa

Will specialises in writing and presenting – producing a huge range of content, ranging from thought-leadership articles to white papers. He started his career as a computer engineer before becoming one of the first producers on Sky TV’s primetime technology show “The Computer Channel” – alongside also covering mainstream business and technology news. He then worked as a product reviewer and technical writer for IT Network before going to Computer Weekly to cover security, telecoms and networking. He worked for several large technology brands including Microsoft and EMC as a technical writer and media consultant and was also the editor at International Broadcast Engineer – a role that saw him deliver a huge number of detailed analysis pieces on emerging video experiences. He has also written a number of books including tech guides for Which? and several "Dummies" guides on topics including big data and storage.

Will is also a highly experienced event moderator, managing content and panels at both the IBC and NAB shows for the last 10 years.

Elliot Wilkie

Elovade UK & I

Elliot Wilkie

Elovade UK & I

Elliot is the Product Manager at Elovade UK &I. His key focuses include Microsoft 365 management and DMARC, helping MSPs with both technical and sales support. After launching a key Elovade UK&I vendor, helping it to become the fastest growing vendor partnership in its history, Elliot has also deployed this vendor across the pan-European group.

Gavin Roberts

Topsec Cloud Solutions

Gavin Roberts

Topsec Cloud Solutions

Awaiting biography.

Professor Sue Turner OBE

Sue Turner is dedicated to using her expertise in AI governance and ethics to inspire people and organisations to use AI with wisdom and integrity.

With both a Law degree and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, she established AI Governance Limited in 2020 to advise businesses and policy makers on pragmatic AI, data ethics and governance issues, and making a positive societal impact. Her Board development clients range from Fortune 100 and FTSE 350 businesses to small charities, and her reach is global through accredited training programmes and being a founder member of the United Nations AI Skills Coalition. She has been rated in the World's Top 100 Women in AI Ethics and was one of the first 14 people globally to be accredited in the Foundations of Independent Audit of AI systems.

She is Professor in Practice for AI and Technologies at the University of Bristol Business School, and has been a Board Chair and Non-Executive Director for purpose-driven businesses in regulated industries as well as a Mentor on the Turing Institute’s Skills Policy Awards. Her career spans entrepreneurial private businesses and not-for-profit organisations where she has led significant organisational growth, raised £27 million for charity and collaborated to shift power to help people improve their prospects. She was awarded the OBE in 2021 for Services to Social Justice.


Meet our 2026 Event Sponsors

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